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Button enjoying racing for first time in years

Jenson Button is enjoying racing for the first time in a couple of years following a successful season in Super GT for the former Formula One world champion.

Button, who won the F1 drivers' championship in 2009, endured a hugely disappointing final few years in the sport as he struggled to score points in a consistently uncompetitive McLaren car.

He retired from F1 at the end of 2016, though he did return for a one-race cameo in Monaco in 2017 to allow Fernando Alonso to race in the Indy 500, and has since focused his energy on Super GT and the World Endurance Championship.

Button clinched the Super GT championship alongside team-mate Naoki Yamamoto this month and on Sunday claimed his first WEC podium, finshing third in Shanghai for SMP Racing.

The Briton shared the podium with Alonso, who was second for Toyota Gazoo Racing and, alongside Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, leads the WEC standings.